A Week of Ups and Downs, Awesome Baptism Day!

Elder Welling and Elder Belnap in the river after their baptism evening before sunset.

OK, this week had a ton of ups and downs.

I will fill you all in on what happened here

in Buenaventura.

DURING THE WEEK, it was solid. We had a

good fun time, and were working really hard

on a lot of things here. We didn't have much

time to relax. Speaking of, I was the most

tired of any week in the mish.

But anyways, I had my first interviews on Wednesday.
I did 4 and they all went well. And not to mention,

it was a really cool experience for me. I loved it a

lot. Nobody failed or anything. But it was awesome.
Then on Thursday the APs came and helped us
finish some interviews, because we had to do

a lot. So it was really cool hanging out with them

and working with them, too. But overall it
was a really fun day with them.
Then on Friday in the morning they bounced (left).
So, then on Friday we had the English class in

the Sena,which was absolutely crazy and fun. They

are nuts kids, and I am pretty sure that they don't

ever study in that school. Anyways, it was fun being

around a bunch of college kids and trying to teach

them English.haha
Then, came Friday night, where we hurried and

finished interviews and what not. Then Saturday morning

came. The day of the baptisms. We had scheduled to have

about 20 baptisms. But oh my gosh, somebody (we know who)

worked hard so these people didn't get into the water. About

11 people fell through,and didn't get baptized. I was super

sad! So, Elder Belnap,and I had 5 people we baptized, and

our other 2 awesome missionares had 4 people. So, that was

super sad to have 11 people fall through right before the

baptisms. But, we had 9 great people baptized, and it

was awesome!
But we went in a Chiva. Which is like a school bus

that is all decorated out and colored, but then

boom, we hit a huge traffic jam going to the river.

And by this time I was getting stressed,
thinking we were never going to get to the river.
But eventually about after one hour in the traffic,
and not moving at all, the bus finally started to go,
which was great. Then we arrived at the river and
everything was great after that. The ordinances were

great, and the river was BEAUTIFUL! I loved it!
Then we returned home and basically went to bed.
But I was still sad about the other 11 people
falling through! Elder Belnap, and I had a
long, good talk about what had happened and ya.
But anyways, that was the weekend.
We still had about 80 people at the church, which

is a good problem.
I will send all of the pics, well hopefully.
It was like Alma in the Waters of Mormon. So awesome

and beautiful! I loved it! This next month will be so

much bigger and better. We just got our
feet in the water. Now we are going to dive in!!!
-- *Elder Tyler Welling*